Judy Chicago

Ellen Slaby has things to do. She is a director of marketing for a publisher, cares for her elderly parents, sits on a charity board and has season tickets for the Red Sox. Yet, she throws several dinner parties each month. "People are afraid to have a dinner party because they think it has to be formal," says Slaby, of Brookline, Mass. "But your friends don't expect a gourmet meal. They just appreciate the chance to come over. A dinner party is one of the nicest things you can do for them." The postwar bride's yoke, the formal dinner party of Jackie Kennedy days, was more taxing than relaxing. The hostess with the mostest spent days polishing silver flatware,...

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Ellen Slaby has things to do. She is a director of marketing for a publisher, cares for her elderly parents, sits on a charity board and has season tickets for the Red Sox. Yet, she throws several dinner parties each month.
"People are afraid to...